Does Brightspot Incentives & Events pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Brightspot Incentives & Events employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.2 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Brightspot Incentives & Events. This rating has decreased by 5% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Brightspot Incentives & Events?

77% of Brightspot Incentives & Events employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Brightspot Incentives & Events 3.4 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.1 for culture and values and 3.7 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Brightspot Incentives & Events?

Program Manager (4) , Program Specialist (4)

Brightspot Incentives & Events Reviews

3.9

77% would recommend to a friend

(23 total reviews)

Mike May

100% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Brightspot Incentives & Events has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 23 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Brightspot Incentives & Events employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

Reviews by job title

23 reviews

3.0

10 Oct 2016

If you are over the age of 25, it's time to move on...

Program manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Free soda and coffee. Sometimes fun but sometimes very childish company team builders. Big name accounts. You won't get fired. You can to learn a lot - "wear several hats" approach.

Cons

Offensive low-pay! After leaving Spear One, I took a similar marketing job and my pay increased $25,000. In fact, I felt guilty not telling my new employer my current (Spear One) salary during my interview, so I was honest with them. They laughed out loud and said "no wonder you are looking for a new job". You will often ask yourself "I went to college to do this..."

3.0

30 June 2015

Get in and get out.

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

-Account names are big, a lot of good experience working with clients. -Can touch on many different aspects of marketing, event planning, incentives, collateral design etc. -Good job out of college, lots of opportunities to travel. -Office overlooks a golf course. -Team building activities. -Good benefits for a small company. -There are jars of snacks and free coffee. -Your next job will feel unbelievable.

Cons

-The pay is offensive. The average pay for a Program Specialist in Dallas TX is $52k. You can go ahead and take $15-20k off that, and expect to make that for at least the first 3 years you're there. -You are blessed with the opportunity to work overtime so you can make up a few thousand dollars by working instead of spending time with your family. -Big name accounts because they underbid the other companies and give stuff away for free to get the account. Then they under-staff programs and events to increase the bottom line, and then expect their specialists to deliver the high-level work of 2-3 people for an entry level salary. -They don't trust specialists with a laptop computer. So if you travel, you have to check out a giant laptop with none of your files on it like it's 1998. -A few of the managers are hilariously unstable and inexperienced. Luck of the draw if you land one of them as your manager or not.

Brightspot Incentives & Events Response

9y

As a general rule, our Program Specialists have 0-5 years experience. Marketing Coordinator or Meeting Coordinator are better job titles for making salary comparisons. Program Specialist is a job title that varies widely across HR, so comparisons are confusing. For example, a Specialist could include an Electrical Engineer with 20 years experience. We use (Meeting) Program Specialist or (Incentive) Program Specialist to reflect the industry expertise of those roles and the knowledge gained through our training and development opportunities. And, we pay overtime to Specialists which often adds another 5%-20% in pay.

3.0

21 Oct 2014

Spear One Review

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Lots of opportunity to learn alot and touch different accounts -- good first job out of college! Free coffee and soda. Great CEO. Young staff with innovative ideas. Big accounts names.

Cons

High turn over rate due to: Underpaid and long hours while traveling. Abnormal amount of work drama and politics! Hire (and they keep around) unqualified managers.

Brightspot Incentives & Events Response

9y

Thanks for complimenting the "lots of opportunity" and "great CEO" (smile). Meeting planning and especially incentive travel definitely has long hours onsite. We try to address tha by paying overtime to our specialists and comp time to our meeting managers. Mike May | President

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